MS-DOS viruses in action

On his danooct1 YouTube channel , Daniel White has been collecting videos for five years showing how old viruses work. To date, he has already recorded 450 pieces; his tested viruses span MS-DOS until the late 90s and the heyday of Windows, and while some of his videos are nostalgic about the past, others are surprising.

Under the cat - animations that demonstrate the work of some of the viruses developed for MS-DOS. Caution traffic.

Virus.DOS.Phantom1 , in spite of the threatening inscriptions, did not actually cause any harm - he just turned on his screen saver after 20 minutes of computer inactivity.
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But Markt DOS Virus , for example, not only looked awesome, but also formatted the C: drive ...



Every year on April 29th, Ithaqua DOS Virus made a little snowfall:



Virus.DOS.HHnHH would also make a nice screensaver:



CMOS DOS Virus, besides the splash screen, reset all the CMOS settings to full screen, and if you pressed Ctrl + Alt + Del, it also formatted the hard disk.



Virus.DOS.Plane was able to lower the parachutist on the command line



" The surface of Mars ", the creation of the Frenchman Spanksa, whose viruses did not spoil the data or iron, more reminiscent of the creation of the demoscene.



Among the video there are more familiar instances - for example, the good old Virus.Win9x.CIH


A selection of 15 viruses for MS-DOS can be viewed in the Wired article , and all others on the YouTube channel .